[systemd-devel] journalctl v202, loop endlessly

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:17:43PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> "journcalctl --no-pager" or" journalctl | cat" produce enless content
> by looping accross journal entries. The date in lines restart from the
> beginning when the end is reached.
> 
> I can reproduce the issue on 2 servers, both archlinux x86_64, linux
> 3.9, with systemd 202. One with a fs backend in btrfs, the other with
> ext4.
> I also have the same issue on my laptop (archlinux x86_64 linux 3.9).

I can't reproduce this on my x86_64 machine. Perhaps you could provide
the journal files which exhibit the problem.

> The bug seems to not occur on my router box (archlinux i686 linux
> 3.8). I updated the kernel to 3.9 and issue still _not_ occur, so the
> main difference is the architecture (32 vs 64bits)
> 
> journalctl --verify is correct on server with ext4 backend and with
> some corruption on this with btrfs. Btw, the journal is corrupted on
> the router box where the problem does not occur. So corruption doesn't
> seems to be a prerequisite.
> 
> Calling "journalctl -e --no-pager" produce a without loop output everywhere.
> 
> On the host with invalid integrity, last lines are older than previous
> lines (timestamp speaking). I guess the loop "is reached" but it's not
> endless.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
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